I feel like I spend so much of my time just trying to remember the alphabet. I work in a library and after awhile my brain gets so tired from trying to deal with the patrons that it can't remember whether "w" comes before or after "v." Working in a library does make for some interesting stories, though. The other day we got a package in one of our delivery boxes that had a note attatched. It read: "This item belongs to you and was sent to us to fill a hold. Item is covered with what appears to be urine." Someone really didn't like Nickleback. I also had a very old man come in the other day to pay his library fines. All ten cents of them. "I just don't want to have any debts when I die." he explained. Library fines kind of have an aura all their own. Some people really resent having to pay anything at the library and others go on and on about how glad they are to be giving to such a good cause. Oh, and McSweeney's put up a new Dispatch from a Public Librarian today. Brilliant.
Posted by linnea at March 2, 2006 10:40 PMmcsweeney's makes me happy.
my opinion of library fines is that they don't exist. neither do most librarians for that matter, as i go into most libraries and know more about the dewey decimal system than most people there knew existed. the librarians mention my fines and i glare at them and mention the shelves i've reorganised for them...
When I worked at a uni library for a year, we used the fines for a pizza party. :-) It's all a matter of perspective.
Posted by: Jeannette at March 4, 2006 4:47 PMI'm the 'good cause' variety!
Posted by: auntie at March 21, 2006 2:53 PM